NASA’s most recent ground-breaking research aims to find evidence of life on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. The government-funded space exploration program has disclosed intentions to examine water plumes thrown from Enceladus in order to search for the primordial components of life, according to a recent revelation in The Debrief.

Because the microscopic ice grains that make up these huge plumes are so fragile, previous attempts at research of this kind have failed. Researchers are using specially designed instruments to capture data from the ice without damaging their samples thanks to new methods.

This is really interesting news since it may provide a conclusive response to the age-old query, “Are we alone in the universe?”
Scientists have long hypothesized that the icy tundra may have some early genetic imprints for living things, even though they are positive there aren’t any little green men riding around Enceladus in hovering spaceships.

This would make a great deal of sense because the most widely accepted hypothesis on the origin of life on Earth holds that microscopic bacteria originally came to our small blue marble as passengers on a comet that crashed.
Though the exact origin of the comet that gave rise to life on Earth may never be known, the discovery of amino acids in Enceladus’ water droplets suggests that Earth may have genetic cousins among the stars.

When NASA launched the Cassini spacecraft into orbit in 2005, it detected the ice plumes that erupted from Enceladus’ southern pole, providing the first indication that the icy moon had ice plumes.

This investigation led to the development of a scientific theory that proposed the possibility of a large hidden ocean, similar to those seen on other celestial planets in our solar system, running just beneath the surface of the orbiting satellite.
Mission planners have suggested sending probes through the eject pattern to gather ice samples for analysis on Earth ever since it was first discovered that there is ice outside of Enceladus.
A group of researchers from the University of California San Diego assert that they have created the ideal tools and data to carry out the suggested tests nearly two full decades later.

The group, led by Professor Robert Continetti, built its own Spectrometer specifically to examine the dynamics of ice particle collisions at high speeds.
Hopefully, this will ease NASA scientists’ concerns about having to spend millions of dollars to get a probe close enough to Enceladus to gather samples.

Continetti has further stated that he is confident other countries’ space exploration programs will be capable of completing the mission if NASA is too afraid to use his research and methods.
India just made history when they landed their Chandrayaan-3 probe on the moon’s South Pole, and other countries like China and Russia have declared that they will transport humans to the satellite’s surface in the next ten or so years.